If You Believe There Are No Co-Incidences In Life Then You’ll Be Very Intrigued With The Back Story That Led NY Daily News Columnist and veteran journalist Linda Stasi, to write her international thriller “The Book Of Judas”. Linda Stasi’s columns are read by millions around the globe. She’s worked at some of the most well-read publications including Cosmopolitan and the New York Post and written five non-fiction books and one critically-acclaimed novel. She writes about public figures most beloved and most hated; has appeared on Good Morning America and Today; and driven an 18-truck convoy from NYC to the gulf states with hurricane relief supplies. There is never a slow day in her life.
And in her personal life? She chases down coincidences and she shares the back story and more on the air with me today at 10:20am eastern!
It all started when Linda noticed an old novel, I, Judas by Taylor Caldwell, on the bookshelf in her home. She hadn’t bought it, neither had anyone else in her family, and she certainly hadn’t placed it there. In fact, she’d never even seen it before, but nonetheless this 1977 tale about the imagined life of Judas Iscariot had somehow mysteriously appeared. Then, three days later, while on a getaway weekend in Princeton with her daughter, she was shocked to see?right on the front display table in the Labyrinth Bookstore?another book about Judas. This one was about a recently rediscovered 2,000-year-old missing Gospel of Judas. Intrigued by the bizarre coincidence, she bought it?of course. But she sure wasn’t prepared for what she herself discovered within those pages.
The Judas codex, she learned, which had been found in a cave in Egypt four decades earlier, then lost on the European and Middle Eastern black markets for years, had been found again?rotting in a Citibank box deposit box in Hicksville, Long Island. Not only was that the very town where she’d grown up, but the codex had been hidden in the SAME Citibank branch where she’d had her first-ever account. What were the chances? There were even rumors out there that some of the pages of Judas’s Gospel were missing.
OMG . What are the chances?
